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by Steve Gilde on 29 May 2019

After January 14, 2020, Microsoft will no longer provide support for the Windows 7 platform. No software updates. No security patches or fixes. No...

by Steve Gilde on 15 January 2019

Gartner's Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019 proved to be quite interesting. In it, Gartner states:

by Steve Gilde on 19 June 2018

Henry Ford is reputed to have said “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.” Having been around the payments business for...

by Steve Gilde on 5 June 2018

I recently had an interesting conversation with a journalist from one of the industry publications. The subject was migrating ATMs to Windows 10.

by Steve Gilde on 29 May 2018

Over the past 50 years, the ATM has evolved from being a simple, single purpose cash dispensing device to become a high-profile and mission...

by Steve Gilde on 22 January 2018

The IT definition of “virtualization” has unfortunately become confused with the virtual reality terminology of the gaming world. In a testing...

by Steve Gilde on 15 January 2018

Many organizations have adopted or have at least started moving toward Agile development practices abandoning the Waterfall methodology used for...

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